Memory use question...?

[darkstrike]

Hey guys

Question! - I use WLM on my desktop because I like MSN Plus, and I would mess some of it's functionalities if I were to fully switch to aMSN on both my computers.

I also have a netbook, as some of you know, which could also handle WLM perfectly fine (netbook has 1gb of RAM). I however, use aMSN on the netbook as it uses less resources than WLM and netbooks aren't exactly big powerhouses so every few mbs of RAM I can save is useful.

Now...my question is this; I noticed awhile ago that my aMSN install is showing up as using 83mbs of RAM in the Task Manager (I am running WinXP Home SP3 on my netbook). 83mbs of RAM! I don't have too many of the addons enabled...the Music plugin, the handwriting plugin...I forget them all until I go home and take a look, but 83mbs is close to what WLM uses on my Win7 desktop.

Any ideas why my install is using so much memory? I have about 140 people on my contact list, and know people with MANY more people than that, so that shouldn't be causing it...? In comparison, I know aMSN has more functions, but Pidgin on my netbook only uses about 40mbs of RAM or less...? What's going on in the depths of aMSN and my OS?

[darkstrike]

I hate to bump this, but does anybody have any ideas? I just can't understand why aMSN might be using so much memory

[alexandernst]

Well, ~80mb is pretty much normal.
You could try using some minimalistic skin (or maybe the default one). Also disable all plugins to see if some of them is causing that, and then re-enable them. (Don't forget to restart the app after disabling all the plugins).

But yeah, I just checked top |grep wish, and amsn on my pc is using 75mb.

[darkstrike]

Ok, cool, thanks Alexander...glad to know it's at least normal then

I know WLM uses like 70mb for msnmgr and then even more on top of that for wlcomm.exe, so anything is an improvement!